I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn’t become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn’t work out, voice work is what I would choose. Jane Green Read Quote
A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, ‘Hang on… if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.’ That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller. Jane Green Read Quote
I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given. Jane Green Read Quote
I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I’ve been married. I don’t do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay. Jane Green Read Quote
My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers. Jane Green Read Quote
As someone who is displaced – I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home – I am drawn to stories about people who don’t belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends. Jane Green Read Quote
What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people’s problems. Jane Green Read Quote
I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today’s sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence. Jane Green Read Quote
I learned that saying you love your friends isn’t enough: that love is a verb – it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love. Jane Green Read Quote
